Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:04:44 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Sch=F6ll?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] External USB 2 Hard Drive L100CT
I've got a libretto 50 ct. There is no USB-possibility. But I'am using a toshiba flipdisk an windows 98. It has an 4 GB toshiba drive. The flipdisk is a PCMCIA-drive, it gets power from the PCMCIA-slot and has a special driver. It works fine with nova-backup. But its impossible do use it to copy an image to the libretto.
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Subject: RE: [LIB] External USB 2 Hard Drive L100CT
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:41:26 -0800 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] External USB 2 Hard Drive L100CT
I have been using a hard drive in a Pocketec hard drive enclosure with my L100CT for years. I have it working on both W98 and W2000. But, my drive is a PCMCIA enclosure that plugs into the card slot on the L100. No USB, no AC power cord, just works and is as fast as the drive inside the L100. I also used the original hard drive from the L100 in the adapter after I upgraded the L100's hard drive. Saved me from coping all those files over to the new drive.
Dick
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Oresteen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:19 PM To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] External USB 2 Hard Drive L100CT
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:18:38 -0500 From: "Tony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: External USB 2 Hard Drive L100CT
I've been trying to get my external 40 gig USB 2.0 Datastor hard drive by Pocketec (www.pocketec.net) to work with my L100CT. Lots of problems!
The first thing to add was a USB 2.0 PCMCIA PC Card. I found one on ebay for about $7 plus postage. It uses the NEC chip. (look at ebay item 6744246898; that's the one I bought).
The USB adapter was an easy install. Using a USB FLASH hard drive (JumpDrive, Pin Drive etc) proved that the USB card was working fine. I then plugged in the Datastor 40 gig hard drive. Nothing. L100CT did not show the drive. Then I realized why. The HD was formated NTFS, the L100CT is running Windows 98. So I downloaded a utility that lets Win98 read NTFS parttions, loaded it and rebooted everything. Still nothing. After 45 minutes I stopped trying to get the utility to work.
Last night I re-formated the Datastor into 2 Fat32 drives. The drive reads fine on my destop machine (Windows 2000).
Plugged it into the L100CT. Nothing.
I decieded that there wasn't enought power coming from the PC card so I hooked up the USB power cord that draws power from the PS2 port. No help. Still nothing.
Called Pocketec tech support. We plugged the drive into the USB 1.1 port on the L100CT docking station. All drives show fine!!
The problem is the power from the PC Card. Even with a boost from the PS port still not enough power. Recomended solution is to get the AC adapter for the Pocketec hard drive. Guess what? The AC adapter is out of stock! So I have to wait a couple of weeks.
I think that once I get the AC adapter it should work at USB 2.0 speeds. Right now it will work at USB 1.1 but it is SLOW!
Anyone else hook up a USB 2.0 hard drive to the L100CT/L110CT?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tony Oresteen Montverde, FL
